Why is it that Nook book prices are almost always higher than other ebooks? I want to get the Ashes series by William Johnstone, I own most of the paperbacks but want them in ebook format.

Amazon sells the kindle editions of the books for 5.69. All other ebook sellers sell them for 5.99 and these can be loaded on the nook. B&N sells them for 8.99 each. I don't mind paying more here and there, but there are at least 35 books in this series.

I thought that the agency model forced all selelrs to the same price or am I wrong?

From what I can see the publisher for these books is ereads.com. They are not one of the "Big Six" publishers in the Agency Model as far as I know.

B&N can charge whatever they want. You may want to report the price discrepancy to B&N and possibly they'll change the price but there are no guarantees.

Another suggestion is to go to addall.com and search for the ebooks you are looking for. They show the prices from multiple vendors. There is no reason to only purchase from B&N if the e-book is cheaper elsewhere.

Why is it that Nook book prices are almost always higher than other ebooks?

Why is it this topic comes up almost daily? Why is it posters can't search for the answer to this query, since it IS answered every time it's brought up?

Nook book prices are NOT almost always higher. First of all, the vast majority of eBooks are published by one of the Agency publishers. Prices for all books from this "Agency 6" group are set by the publisher and can't be changed by the agents (B&N, Amazon, Sony, Kobo, etc.). So the prices are almost always identical. Even when you get into the non-Agency published books B&N is usually competitive with other vendors, even Amazon. More importantly for Nook owners, however, we're not locked into purchasing only from B&N. You can easily use a service like Inkmesh to find the cheapest price on an eBook for your Nook. Every time this topic has been brought up, including this time, I've been able to find a price that AT LEAST matched the price at Amazon, which quite frankly, is amazing considering Amazon's ability and willingness to price items as loss leaders.

Why is it that Nook book prices are almost always higher than other ebooks?

Why is it this topic comes up almost daily? Why is it posters can't search for the answer to this query, since it IS answered every time it's brought up?

Nook book prices are NOT almost always higher. First of all, the vast majority of eBooks are published by one of the Agency publishers. Prices for all books from this "Agency 6" group are set by the publisher and can't be changed by the agents (B&N, Amazon, Sony, Kobo, etc.). So the prices are almost always identical. Even when you get into the non-Agency published books B&N is usually competitive with other vendors, even Amazon. More importantly for Nook owners, however, we're not locked into purchasing only from B&N. You can easily use a service like Inkmesh to find the cheapest price on an eBook for your Nook. Every time this topic has been brought up, including this time, I've been able to find a price that AT LEAST matched the price at Amazon, which quite frankly, is amazing considering Amazon's ability and willingness to price items as loss leaders.

Good point, SirWillard. Personally, I rarely see books that are higher at BN than Amazon, most of the time they are the same. Maybe I just don't buy the same books as others.

The other thing I find funny is that people have complained about Agency pricing since its inception. The books are the same price everwhere. And yet, people also complain because there is a difference in prices, at times, for non agency books. So we don't want agency pricing but we want prices to be the same everywhere.

The other thing I find funny is that people have complained about Agency pricing since its inception. The books are the same price everwhere. And yet, people also complain because there is a difference in prices, at times, for non agency books. So we don't want agency pricing but we want prices to be the same everywhere.

I think the problem people have with the Agency pricing is not that the prices are the same everywhere, but that the eBook prices tend to be higher than DTB prices at times. There's no logical reason for such a price difference between eBooks and DTB since production and distribution costs should be massively lower for eBooks.

I also haven't found B&N prices all that bad for eBooks. And, when I don't like their prices, at least I have the option of purchasing from another site if I want and then loading it on my NST very simply.

I also haven't found B&N prices all that bad for eBooks. And, when I don't like their prices, at least I have the option of purchasing from another site if I want and then loading it on my NST very simply.

That, to me, is one of the greatest features of the N2E. The libraries are combined. Other than book "comments" there really is no difference between B&N books and sideloaded books.

The other thing I find funny is that people have complained about Agency pricing since its inception. The books are the same price everwhere. And yet, people also complain because there is a difference in prices, at times, for non agency books. So we don't want agency pricing but we want prices to be the same everywhere.

I think the problem people have with the Agency pricing is not that the prices are the same everywhere, but that the eBook prices tend to be higher than DTB prices at times. There's no logical reason for such a price difference between eBooks and DTB since production and distribution costs should be massively lower for eBooks.

I also haven't found B&N prices all that bad for eBooks. And, when I don't like their prices, at least I have the option of purchasing from another site if I want and then loading it on my NST very simply.

I rarely see eBook prices higher than DTB prices, except possibly when you factored in the discount on new releases. But for the books I look at, it's rare that an eBook is higher priced. Now, the same price, yes. The other instances is HC books on the remainder or clearance table/section. You're never going to have a remainder/clearance section for eBooks, and even in those instances, the store doesn't bring down the price of the paperback to be lower than the clearance HC book.

What I have seen are complaints in instances like this one. Where the eBook is $14.99 and if you look at the basic page, the paperback is $7.99. However, if you look further, the paperback won't be released until March 2012 at which time, the eBook will be reduced to the $7.99.

The other thing I find funny is that people have complained about Agency pricing since its inception. The books are the same price everwhere. And yet, people also complain because there is a difference in prices, at times, for non agency books. So we don't want agency pricing but we want prices to be the same everywhere.

I think the problem people have with the Agency pricing is not that the prices are the same everywhere, but that the eBook prices tend to be higher than DTB prices at times. There's no logical reason for such a price difference between eBooks and DTB since production and distribution costs should be massively lower for eBooks.

I also haven't found B&N prices all that bad for eBooks. And, when I don't like their prices, at least I have the option of purchasing from another site if I want and then loading it on my NST very simply.

I rarely see eBook prices higher than DTB prices, except possibly when you factored in the discount on new releases. But for the books I look at, it's rare that an eBook is higher priced. Now, the same price, yes. The other instances is HC books on the remainder or clearance table/section. You're never going to have a remainder/clearance section for eBooks, and even in those instances, the store doesn't bring down the price of the paperback to be lower than the clearance HC book.

What I have seen are complaints in instances like this one. Where the eBook is $14.99 and if you look at the basic page, the paperback is $7.99. However, if you look further, the paperback won't be released until March 2012 at which time, the eBook will be reduced to the $7.99.

At the same time I never see anyone complaining about free e-books. I've never seen free paperbacks or hardcover books.

The other thing I find funny is that people have complained about Agency pricing since its inception. The books are the same price everwhere. And yet, people also complain because there is a difference in prices, at times, for non agency books. So we don't want agency pricing but we want prices to be the same everywhere.

I think the problem people have with the Agency pricing is not that the prices are the same everywhere, but that the eBook prices tend to be higher than DTB prices at times. There's no logical reason for such a price difference between eBooks and DTB since production and distribution costs should be massively lower for eBooks.

I also haven't found B&N prices all that bad for eBooks. And, when I don't like their prices, at least I have the option of purchasing from another site if I want and then loading it on my NST very simply.

How should it be lower for ebooks? Having server farms running 24/7 with staff on hand to fix things that break right away, cost of bandwidth, and unlike brick and mortar stores they can not make room for new book by not stocking old book (since you have the ability to redownload the book it has to stay on the server) so they have to keep adding new capacity.

And what does direct cost of a product have to do with its price? Are you willing for your paycheck to be determined by what it cost you to commute to work?

How should it be lower for ebooks? Having server farms running 24/7 with staff on hand to fix things that break right away, cost of bandwidth, and unlike brick and mortar stores they can not make room for new book by not stocking old book (since you have the ability to redownload the book it has to stay on the server) so they have to keep adding new capacity.

And what does direct cost of a product have to do with its price? Are you willing for your paycheck to be determined by what it cost you to commute to work?

Here's my reasoning. Granted, I don't know a whole lot about the IT industry, and I'm not sure who would actually have the servers, the vendor or the publisher. So, my reasoning may be seriously flawed.

But, how much does a server cost (several $K, but less than $10K?) and how many are you going to need to run for your business? As far as having the IT staff on hand 24/7, I'm not so sure about that. I've worked for a research University, and while they may have someone on call, they don't have anyone on site after normal business hours (other than some students manning the help desk phone, and even then, after midnight you'd just leave a message and whoever is manning the desk in the morning would call you back). I would guess that the largest yearly expenses would be for bandwidth access and the electric load, followed by personnel/benefits, equipment and building expenses.

How many server farms are required to allow B&N customers all across the country to purchase eBooks? 1 or 2? Someplace like Sioux Falls would be a less expensive area to place a server farm than, say, San Francisco. As long as they have access to the bandwidth, it doesn't really matter where they are physically located. My impression is that the printers aren't setting type by hand anymore, but using a computer program. So, it should just be a file format conversion to put the eBook on the server for upload and available for purchase rather than feeding it into the printer.

As opposed to have a couple of hundred brick and mortar stores across the country to staff and house the DTB's. Plus, the warehouse(s) [I'm guessing B&N has multiple warehouses across the country, and each publisher probably has at least one] for extra product. Not to mention the costs for paper, ink, glue, binding, transportation and the built in markup for discounted books that didn't sell. And then there are the costs associated with producing physical copies of audio books versus downloadable audiobooks.

To me, it seems like one or two server farms could probably sell more books than a hundred brick and mortar stores.

How should it be lower for ebooks? Having server farms running 24/7 with staff on hand to fix things that break right away, cost of bandwidth, and unlike brick and mortar stores they can not make room for new book by not stocking old book (since you have the ability to redownload the book it has to stay on the server) so they have to keep adding new capacity.

And what does direct cost of a product have to do with its price? Are you willing for your paycheck to be determined by what it cost you to commute to work?

Here's my reasoning. Granted, I don't know a whole lot about the IT industry, and I'm not sure who would actually have the servers, the vendor or the publisher. So, my reasoning may be seriously flawed.

But, how much does a server cost (several $K, but less than $10K?) and how many are you going to need to run for your business? As far as having the IT staff on hand 24/7, I'm not so sure about that. I've worked for a research University, and while they may have someone on call, they don't have anyone on site after normal business hours (other than some students manning the help desk phone, and even then, after midnight you'd just leave a message and whoever is manning the desk in the morning would call you back). I would guess that the largest yearly expenses would be for bandwidth access and the electric load, followed by personnel/benefits, equipment and building expenses.

How many server farms are required to allow B&N customers all across the country to purchase eBooks? 1 or 2? Someplace like Sioux Falls would be a less expensive area to place a server farm than, say, San Francisco. As long as they have access to the bandwidth, it doesn't really matter where they are physically located. My impression is that the printers aren't setting type by hand anymore, but using a computer program. So, it should just be a file format conversion to put the eBook on the server for upload and available for purchase rather than feeding it into the printer.

As opposed to have a couple of hundred brick and mortar stores across the country to staff and house the DTB's. Plus, the warehouse(s) [I'm guessing B&N has multiple warehouses across the country, and each publisher probably has at least one] for extra product. Not to mention the costs for paper, ink, glue, binding, transportation and the built in markup for discounted books that didn't sell. And then there are the costs associated with producing physical copies of audio books versus downloadable audiobooks.

To me, it seems like one or two server farms could probably sell more books than a hundred brick and mortar stores.

As was pointed out, cost rarely determines price. The market apparently is ok with the current prices.

As to having someone onsite 24/7. If the servers go down in the middle of the night, there's going to be a lot of unhappy customers if problems are only fixed during business hours. They may not be physically on site, they may be able to remotely connect to the servers, but if so, they still have to paid.

But it comes down to regardless of how much it costs to create the book, they're going to sell it for the highest price the market will bear.

Conversion - Files for printed books are formatted to be fixed pages, fixed lines. eBooks need to reflow. This is one of the biggest problems with PDF on eReaders. You can see where someone has tried to take the printed file and simply convert it, if you've ever read an eBook where a sentence simply stops in the middle of line and goes to the next line, or there is one word on a page. The hard formatting was completely removed. So, there is more too it than simply file save as or file convert.

How many server farms are required to allow B&N customers all across the country to purchase eBooks? 1 or 2? Someplace like Sioux Falls would be a less expensive area to place a server farm than, say, San Francisco. As long as they have access to the bandwidth, it doesn't really matter where they are physically located. My impression is that the printers aren't setting type by hand anymore, but using a computer program. So, it should just be a file format conversion to put the eBook on the server for upload and available for purchase rather than feeding it into the printer.

Oh... Gods.. NO

it is NOT just a "file format conversion" it's not SAVE AS.

It's an entirely new layout process to shift from what a printer wants to a different format. Find the crappiest formatted ebook and that's probably some idiot just changing formats and not making sure the layout flows correctly.

Also, high end servers can START at 10,000$ - and go up fast.These are machines that should never even Reboot, much less shut down, that's a lot of wear on a hard drive. RAID-5 at the least per SERVER DRIVE.

One ebook may be a MB or 2. A couple hundreed thousand ebooks? B&N and Amazon claim, what, a million titles?

Putting a server farm in an out of the way place probably means running you're own OC-12 (that's the smallest fiber line available), that's gonna be in the 10s of thousands of dollars. Which means you want to put your server farm near an already existing high speed high bandwidth connection, like a city. They don't run these things on tiny little T-1s.

Anyway, go on believing what you want about pricing, or whatever. The cost of an ebook isn't too far from the cost of dead tree.

I have been reading the Area 51 series books. The 2nd and 3rd of the series were $1 less at Amazon than B&N, but I bought them from B&N because I wanted to read then on my Nook Color. I'm on the 5th book now and only read on my smartphone now, as I like it better than the Color. Today, B&N just raised the price from $3.99 to $4.99 for all except the original book. Since my phone doesn't care if I read on the Nook app or the Kindle app, it is time to switch to Amazon for my books. Sorry B&N, but you are losing my business. These are not the only books that I have paid more for at B&N than I would have paid at Amazon.

I find that many ebooks are higher at B&N than other sites (especially Amazon). This seems particularly true of sci-fi/fantasy books. And sometimes the difference is significant. For example, the Hunger Games series. At B&N, the price for book 1 is $7.49, book 2 $8.99, book 3 8.99 and the trilogy is $26.98. At Amazon, the 1st book is $4.69, the 2nd $7.70, 3rd $5.98 and the trilogy is $17.85. I have heard Kobo's prices are cheaper as well. This is a BIG price difference! Plus, paying $26.98 for an ebook is ridiculous when you can get the DTB trilogy at Walmart for about $31. There is no way I will buy these books at B&N because they are so much more in price. I will probably buy them at Amazon and read them on my ipad. Between the price differences of books, the lack of decent apps and having good apps only available for the tablet (tv.com, jeopardy and wheel of fortune), I'm afraid B&N will be losing a lot of my business.

I find that many ebooks are higher at B&N than other sites (especially Amazon). This seems particularly true of sci-fi/fantasy books. And sometimes the difference is significant. For example, the Hunger Games series. At B&N, the price for book 1 is $7.49, book 2 $8.99, book 3 8.99 and the trilogy is $26.98. At Amazon, the 1st book is $4.69, the 2nd $7.70, 3rd $5.98 and the trilogy is $17.85. I have heard Kobo's prices are cheaper as well. This is a BIG price difference! Plus, paying $26.98 for an ebook is ridiculous when you can get the DTB trilogy at Walmart for about $31. There is no way I will buy these books at B&N because they are so much more in price. I will probably buy them at Amazon and read them on my ipad. Between the price differences of books, the lack of decent apps and having good apps only available for the tablet (tv.com, jeopardy and wheel of fortune), I'm afraid B&N will be losing a lot of my business.

Keep in mind that Walmart pays its employees as little as possible and recently yanked the benefits from its part-time employees, which is how, in part, they keep their prices low.

I find that many ebooks are higher at B&N than other sites (especially Amazon). This seems particularly true of sci-fi/fantasy books. And sometimes the difference is significant. For example, the Hunger Games series. At B&N, the price for book 1 is $7.49, book 2 $8.99, book 3 8.99 and the trilogy is $26.98. At Amazon, the 1st book is $4.69, the 2nd $7.70, 3rd $5.98 and the trilogy is $17.85. I have heard Kobo's prices are cheaper as well. This is a BIG price difference! Plus, paying $26.98 for an ebook is ridiculous when you can get the DTB trilogy at Walmart for about $31. There is no way I will buy these books at B&N because they are so much more in price. I will probably buy them at Amazon and read them on my ipad. Between the price differences of books, the lack of decent apps and having good apps only available for the tablet (tv.com, jeopardy and wheel of fortune), I'm afraid B&N will be losing a lot of my business.

I search Kobo a lot and buy a number of books there, but I find that Kobo books tend to be higher than B&N books. I've even found B&N is cheaper even when I can use a Kobo discount coupon.

Since Amazon can and will sell eBooks at a loss, you're going to find instances where they're doing this and B&N simply doesn't have the capital behind it to take a loss on the sales. I'm sure they'd love to be able to match Amazon pricing all the time, but fiscally, probably not a reality.

When the price of a book is the same across the board, the publisher is to blame. When the price is different and one retailer is higher than everyone else, the retailer is at fault. Hunger Games is one the best examples of the latter-both Kobo and Amazon are charging significantly less for this series than B&N.

Thanks for the hint about double tapping the book cover, Kamas! I'm not specifically picking on B&N. It just seems to me like, with the lower overhead (no inventory to stock, no buildings, no shipping costs, no salespeople to pay, no printing, no paper, no unsold copies to dispose of), eBooks should be significantly cheaper than their printed counterparts. If it's the publishers' restrictions, it seems to me they are artificially inflating the prices of books since it's the book stores who bear much of the cost of stocking, selling, and (in some cases) shipping books, as well as maintaining the staff and stores and/or warehouse space to do it in. (Example, I could buy all three volumes of the Lord of the Rings in paperback at $7.99 each for a total of almost $24; the e-book containing all three books is $19.99, so I'm only saving $4 on 3 books by buying the eBook version!) Given the above, I was expecting to save a lot more than that on books when I bought my Nook. I was hoping an eReader would allow me to buy and read more books, but I'm finding it primarily useful for sideloading and reading other electronic documents. Buying an eBook from one of the "Big 6" seems like a splurge to me, and if I'm going to splurge, I'd like a hard copy to show for it.

tygerlili wrote:Thanks for the hint about double tapping the book cover, Kamas! I'm not specifically picking on B&N. It just seems to me like, with the lower overhead (no inventory to stock, no buildings, no shipping costs, no salespeople to pay, no printing, no paper, no unsold copies to dispose of), eBooks should be significantly cheaper than their printed counterparts. If it's the publishers' restrictions, it seems to me they are artificially inflating the prices of books since it's the book stores who bear much of the cost of stocking, selling, and (in some cases) shipping books, as well as maintaining the staff and stores and/or warehouse space to do it in. (Example, I could buy all three volumes of the Lord of the Rings in paperback at $7.99 each for a total of almost $24; the e-book containing all three books is $19.99, so I'm only saving $4 on 3 books by buying the eBook version!) Given the above, I was expecting to save a lot more than that on books when I bought my Nook. I was hoping an eReader would allow me to buy and read more books, but I'm finding it primarily useful for sideloading and reading other electronic documents. Buying an eBook from one of the "Big 6" seems like a splurge to me, and if I'm going to splurge, I'd like a hard copy to show for it.

If you're really interested in understanding the pricing, you should search the forums for ebook pricing, agency model, agency 5, etc. There have been numerous discussions on this. You can read this NYT article which puts the printing/shipping costs of books at about 12% of the total cost. So at most, you might expect to see a 12% decrease, except that there are costs associated with creating and distributing the eBook, so the difference is going to be less than the 12%.

You can read this NYT article which puts the printing/shipping costs of books at about 12% of the total cost. So at most, you might expect to see a 12% decrease, except that there are costs associated with creating and distributing the eBook, so the difference is going to be less than the 12%.

Very interesting to read this pre-agency analysis knowing what came after.

Even more interesting is the mention of the 12.5% printing and shipping cost. The suggestion that printing and shipping are the only extra costs incurred in producing and selling DTBs is disingenuous and misleading. Here are a few others, just off the top of my head:

Inventory tracking (publisher + distributor + retailer)

Warehouse space (publisher + distributor + retailer)

Overruns (which are inevitable; extra copies end up either being sold at a steep discount or destroyed -- yet another cost)

None of the above apply to ebooks. Furthermore, retail prices for DTBs are set to allow all three players (publisher, distributor, retailer) to make a profit. That brings additional costs into play at the wholesale and retail levels that have to be covered too (e.g. retail space and employees).

Ebooks, in sharp contrast, are bought directly from the publisher with just one additional profit added: the 30% agency commission. I believe that's less than the typical retail markup for DTBs, which I think is 40%. Of course in 2009 it was different, but the essence of the sale was still direct from publisher without more than one middleman.

Yes, there are other expenses with DTBs but everyone seems to want to compare the cost of overage, used or paperback release books against ebooks rather than the hardback release which is the one that generally recoups the baseline cost of publishing. I can imagine the items you mention account for the 10% difference between the seller's cut for ebooks and their cut of MSRP for DTBs.

You can read this NYT article which puts the printing/shipping costs of books at about 12% of the total cost. So at most, you might expect to see a 12% decrease, except that there are costs associated with creating and distributing the eBook, so the difference is going to be less than the 12%.

Very interesting to read this pre-agency analysis knowing what came after.

Even more interesting is the mention of the 12.5% printing and shipping cost. The suggestion that printing and shipping are the only extra costs incurred in producing and selling DTBs is disingenuous and misleading. Here are a few others, just off the top of my head:

Inventory tracking (publisher + distributor + retailer)

Warehouse space (publisher + distributor + retailer)

Overruns (which are inevitable; extra copies end up either being sold at a steep discount or destroyed -- yet another cost)

None of the above apply to ebooks. Furthermore, retail prices for DTBs are set to allow all three players (publisher, distributor, retailer) to make a profit. That brings additional costs into play at the wholesale and retail levels that have to be covered too (e.g. retail space and employees).

Ebooks, in sharp contrast, are bought directly from the publisher with just one additional profit added: the 30% agency commission. I believe that's less than the typical retail markup for DTBs, which I think is 40%. Of course in 2009 it was different, but the essence of the sale was still direct from publisher without more than one middleman.

That may be, it also may be that the reporter simply used printing and shipping as all incompassing. On the other hand, people seem to think there are no ongoing costs associated with eBooks. That once the file is created, that's it. And yet, those books have to housed on servers somewhere, there has to be software to distribute those books, software to protect everyone using the servers and people to maintain the servers/software etc, so that we can buy books at 2:00 a.m. (And yes, I know servers are cheap, rent on a building to house them, maybe not so much and the people to maintain them, not so much) While these costs may not be as significant as costs associated with printing, etc, they do exist. And in some cases, there is a middleman here. Kobo and some other retailers get their books through Overdrive, so in essence, Overdrive is the distributor.

And as AlanNJ said, in the end, they're going to charge what people will pay, and people seem to have no issue with paying the current prices.

You can read this NYT article which puts the printing/shipping costs of books at about 12% of the total cost. So at most, you might expect to see a 12% decrease, except that there are costs associated with creating and distributing the eBook, so the difference is going to be less than the 12%.

Very interesting to read this pre-agency analysis knowing what came after.

Even more interesting is the mention of the 12.5% printing and shipping cost. The suggestion that printing and shipping are the only extra costs incurred in producing and selling DTBs is disingenuous and misleading. Here are a few others, just off the top of my head:

Inventory tracking (publisher + distributor + retailer)

Warehouse space (publisher + distributor + retailer)

Overruns (which are inevitable; extra copies end up either being sold at a steep discount or destroyed -- yet another cost)

None of the above apply to ebooks. Furthermore, retail prices for DTBs are set to allow all three players (publisher, distributor, retailer) to make a profit. That brings additional costs into play at the wholesale and retail levels that have to be covered too (e.g. retail space and employees).

Ebooks, in sharp contrast, are bought directly from the publisher with just one additional profit added: the 30% agency commission. I believe that's less than the typical retail markup for DTBs, which I think is 40%. Of course in 2009 it was different, but the essence of the sale was still direct from publisher without more than one middleman.

-Bandwidth (yes - this costs money, it costs the server owners money every time you download a book, heck, it costs them money every time you load a web page).

-The Computer Servers Themselves: you'll often have hosting servers for the website, storage servers for the books, yet more servers for all the bookkeeping and accounting)

Two of your three "none of the above apply to ebooks" actually apply to ebooks in a different way than they do to DTBS, but they still apply. Obviouslt the NYT reporter did need to go into more detail because you have no idea what infrastructure is required for digital anything.

ebooks still need to be priced to let three companies profit, Publisher, Retailer, Distributor (and that may be two seperate distributors: the Internet Provider charging bandwidth usage fees and the Storage Company that owns the servers).

The model has no changed, just the format. The only people not getting a cut on ebooks is a Printer.

I have found many ebooks to be more expensive from B&N compared to Amazon, sometimes as much as almost double the price. Hunger Games trilogy, James Herriot collection, Whatever You Do Don't Run, and Runt are just a few (James Herriot collection was about $12 from Amazon and $20 from B&N, Whatever You Do Don't Run was about $10 from B&N and about $6 from Amazon). If B&N doesn't get their act together and start charging decent prices for ebooks, they are going to lose business. I have already purchased the Hunger Games trilogy from Amazon (I have an ipad, so I can easily download Kindle books to read) and will probably purchase the other books mentioned through Amazon as well because I just can't afford B&N's prices!

End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman (Publication date April 30,2012) prices:

B&N Amazon

Nook - $16.71 Kindle -$ 9.99

Hardcover- $17.70 Hardcover -$16.47

Even if B&N has costs that Amazon dosn't have, they will not be covered if B&N sales are zero.

The digital list price is $24.95. I'd guess Amazon is losing about $2.50 per copy at that price. Another curious thing, Amazon indicates the delivery date is April 23rd and the announced delivery date is April 30th. A mistake or on purpose, take your pick.

Edit: I just noticed...the hardcover has a 4/30 publication date and the Kindle has 4/23 pub. date. Interesting.

End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman (Publication date April 30,2012) prices:

B&N Amazon

Nook - $16.71 Kindle -$ 9.99

Hardcover- $17.70 Hardcover -$16.47

Even if B&N has costs that Amazon dosn't have, they will not be covered if B&N sales are zero.

The digital list price is $24.95. I'd guess Amazon is losing about $2.50 per copy at that price. Another curious thing, Amazon indicates the delivery date is April 23rd and the announced delivery date is April 30th. A mistake or on purpose, take your pick.

Edit: I just noticed...the hardcover has a 4/30 publication date and the Kindle has 4/23 pub. date. Interesting.